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  • Just to the rear, by the cabin-door, Bella was washing clothes.

    CHAPTER 22 2010

  • And writhing in his great horror, he called to Cary to kill him and put him out of his misery, and then wailed for his mother to come and help him, as if he had been a boy once more; while Brimblecombe and Cary, and the sailors who crowded round the cabin-door, wept as if they too had been boys once more.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Presently the cabin-door opened gently, and the head of the senor intendant appeared.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • And while we pumped the ship was going from us piecemeal: the bulwarks went, the stanchions were torn out, the ventilators smashed, the cabin-door burst in.

    Youth, by Joseph Conrad 2004

  • Afterwards he smoked at the cabin-door, looking at his children with an air of civic virtue, till they got caught one after another and put to bed in various staterooms.

    Falk, by Joseph Conrad 2004

  • Mr. Jolter was far from being unconcerned at the uncommon motion of the vessel, the singing of the wind, and the uproar which he heard about him: he looked towards the cabin-door with the most fearful expectation, in hope of seeing some person who could give some account of the weather, and what was doing upon deck; but not

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • After considerable hesitation, but still keeping his hold upon the cabin-door, the Jew made up his mind to step outside.

    Off on a Comet 2003

  • "Well, I'll get one of the girls now," said Stumpy, and he unlocked the cabin-door.

    The Adventurous Four Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1973

  • Andy landed on the motor-boat first and ran to the cabin-door.

    The Adventurous Four Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1973

  • Perched on a tree by a cabin-door, where the white-headed settler's

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

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